The Breakfast Journal

Craft Supplies Shopping in Hong Kong

Hi, I'm Alessa, and I'm an art materials addict. The thing about arts&crafts materials hoarding is that you feel like what you have is never enough. I'm lucky that I use them for my job, s...

Date Night: TBLS Kitchen Studio in Hong Kong

PJ and I love staying (and saving! hehe) at home, so we hardly go out on dinner dates. But when we do go on dates, we go ALL OUT. "Love, let's go on a date for our anniv!" "Sure, where do you want...

Veg Foodtrip in the South

Having balikbayan relatives in town is always the perfect excuse to live like a tourist myself. Although not everyone in our family is vegetarian, all appreciate clean, healthy, and well-prepared f...

The White Rabbit Restaurant

And the Singapore food adventure continues... :) The White Rabbit is a restaurant and bar located in the Dempsey area, and is housed in a restored chapel. The place is so hole-in-the-wall-ish tha...

Singapore's #1 Restaurant: Iggy's

On PJ's only free day during our entire Singapore trip, we went out for a lunch date. Although severely underdressed for swanky fine dining, we headed over to the Hilton on Orchard Road for our noo...

Restaurant André

Ever since I stumbled upon Restaurant André's gorgeous website, I had been wanting to go there. On our recent trip to Singapore, this was first on my agenda. PJ had a full weekend of conferences, s...

Veg Out in Baguio

If only Baguio were a few hours closer to Manila, I would probably head up there every month. I love going there to experience cooler weather, to go market shopping, and to re-visit my favorite veg...

FLOW Weekend in Baler

Last Saturday, PJ and I, together with 30 others, hopped on a bus and headed to Baler, Aurora for the 7th FLOW SurfYogaSamba Weekend. It was a 6+ hour trip, which began after midnight, so we a...

3rd Leap: My Feng Shui Reading

Remember my post about taking 29 Leaps? The third one was: 3. Expose yourself to a different kind of religion or belief. A few weeks ago, I worked on a shoot with one of my former Art Adventu...

Zambales Weekend

Muffin, Don, PJ & I spent the weekend in Zambales. We drove early out on Saturday morning and went straight to Pundakit, San Antonio (land of my favorite surf break) and hopped on a tiny boat t...